Dust-pan.



No. 73,213. PATENTED DEU.;10, 190v.

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DUST PAN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4.1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEroE.

SARAH O. COURTNEY, OF FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALVIN HURFORD, OF CANTON, OHIO.

DUST-PAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907.

I Application filed May 4. 1907. Serial No. 371.855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH O. COURTNEY, citizen of the United States, residing at Fairmont, in the county of Marion. and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a dust-pan or carrier designed for taking up and carrying sweepings, ashes and the like. x

The object of the invention is to provide a device of the kind stated provided with a lid or door which is hinged so that it may be turned down in open position to receive the matter and with a handle which, when the device is lifted, will act to close the door.

In the accompanying drawing a perspective view of the invention is shown.

Referring specifically thereto, 6 indicates a box which has at one side a door 7 hinged at 8 to the edge of the bottom ofthe box and of proper size and shape to close the open side when turned up. This door has at its ends guards 9 which work outside the ends of the box.

10 indicates a bail handle which extends T through slots 11 in the top of the box at the ends thereof, and is connected at its ends to the door 7, as at 12. At the rear corner the box has points 13 to prevent the same from slipping.

In use, the box is set on the floor and the door 7 turned down. The dirt may then be swept into the box. When lifted by the handle the door is swung closed and. is held in that position while the box is being carried.

When the box is set on the floor again, and

the handle pushed down, the door is opened. The device may thus be manipulated with one hand, the other being free to operate the broom or brush. And so it may be carried about and used wherever needed.

I claim:

A dust box having a hin ed side, and slots W. H. KUNsT, W. D. COURTNEY, 

